Nesting Diaries
May 16, 2023....we noticed the female on the side of the nest. Hoping for another good year for this couple. They had 3 fledglings in 2022.
This nest has been torn down or blew down over the last few months. It is a platform, so we assume the pair will rebuild when they arrive.
These 2 chicks appear to have fledged in the last few days!
One osprey sitting on the nearby pole, eating. Hopefully, that means the other is incubating.
Unless she is hunkered down and incubating, we have not seen this pair the last few drive-bys. Hoping we're just not catching them at the right time.
Another early start! Both osprey have been here since March 7. They had built a second nest near the platform nest, last year, but it was either removed or blown down at the end of the season.
This pair had built a new nest, earlier in the season, on a pole just yards away from the failed nest. I was afraid someone would tear it down over the winter, but it's already been torn down, sadly. Evidently, someone is hoping they'll return to the regular nest come 2022.
There was an osprey sitting by the "new" nest yesterday. I fear that since this new. late nest was built on a pole, it will be destroyed over the winter.
No activity for awhile now.
Yesterday, there was an osprey sitting on the "new" nest they built on the nearby pole. Makes us wonder what happened with the platform nest since it is only a few yards from the new nest.
No one at this nest today and it looks like a new nest is or was being built on a nearby telephone/light pole. Not sure what happened here.
We saw one osprey on the nearby pole that they seem to like, a few days ago. It was eating. Nothing was in the nest that we could see. Today, nothing on the pole and nothing on the nest, as far as we could see. Not sure what is going on here yet.
Sitting up a bit more on the nest, rather than hunkered down in the nest.
Only seeing the head of this female right now.
We have seen one chick a time or two, so far, and the parents are still there, as well.
Two ospreys in the nest today!!
Still only seeing the female, sitting on a nearby telephone pole. Her mate doesn't seem to have shown up as yet.
This was a new and successful nest last season, producing one chick. Today, there was an adult female sitting on a telephone pole next to the nest.